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BBC Four is obviously the discerning choice for us corduroy wearers who want to enjoy a real ale in front of an excellent documentary about shipping containers or a Whistle Test repeat of some early T-Rex performances.

But sometimes it's time to take life a little less seriously. And at those times, BBC Three is the undisputed destination for televisual treats. Let's all take a moment to remember the joy that Britain's third or fourth best channel has brought us over the years...

Him & Her
Nighty Night
Pulling
15 Storeys High
Monkey Dust
I Am Not an Animal*
Early Doors*
Stressed Eric*
Ideal
Mighty Boosh
Pramface
How Not To Live Your Life
Bad Education
Cuckoo
Dead Boss
The Smoking Room

Sure, Off The Hook, Coming of Age, and Badults are pish. But let's not dwell on that. Feel free to have a little cry/reminisce about how good/bad Two Pints was, though (clue: it was funny, and only Tories and southerners would think otherwise).

If I had as much time on my hands as some, this would be a gripping countdown thread, strung out over a few days, with pithy yet insightful summaries, and carefully selected YouTube clips. But I'm an incredibly busy man, so you'll have to sort yourself out with that stuff.

*shown on Two, in truth, but I'm presuming that was simply an administrative error. They were blatantly good enough to be shown on Three.

It did step over the line a few times (the racist tomatoes sketch is pretty inexcusable, you don't get away with it by pointing out that people who like racist tomatoes ironically are complete twats I'm afraid) and like any sketch show there's some stuff that falls flat but in terms of mood and how things link together it's very unique and more importantly some of the stuff is hilarious.

Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents. Best thing on TV, if only for the ones where it's a pervy stepdad sweating with confusion while watching his 18 year old daughter get her bangers out for the lads. "Oh... no, that's... horrible?"

The reason they buried it on a sunday on BBC3 was it would show Doctor Who up for the mess it really is.

To balance it out I really liked earlier series of Two Pints, and guilty pleasures of Don't Tell The Bride and Snog Marry Avoid. They always seem to be on to watch when sitting down for supper and the other channels have some grisly medical reality show on.

I alos really really liked the one series of Clone and would be happy to admit I was the only person who did. Oscar winner Jonathan Pryce! Mark Gatiss! It was just beyond silly but fun.

was commissioned when the channel was BBC choice. When it became BBC3 they cancelled anything with people over the age of 17 in them. Because teenagers heads will explode if they see anyone old. This is science fact.

that is neither edgy or informative and basically consists of plebs with backwards caps speaking in slang. Basically it's a kid from the year 2000 trying to recreate a bunch of shows from the early - mid 90s.

it even carried on alright for that fourth series when they completely Sugababesed the cast. I gave up on the fifth one but may return to it. The first two series were actually incredible. (side note, my sister lives opposite the house from the first two series, and I get excited every time I see it!)

The new cast were good and the writing was consistently excellent. I think a lot of people expected it to go bad so not that many watched it (hence its cancellation), but it stayed pretty stellar all the way through its run. Based on series 2 ratings it really should have been bumped up to bbc2/1 like torchwood was.

Jonah was a brilliant character. At first you just had him down as an obnoxious arsehole but as the series moved on you saw how the system as well as a few prejudiced teachers were against him and other Tongans. It's a comedy by the way if any people here haven't seen it.